USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology

Located in Woods Hole, MA

The Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Team is one of three marine teams that conduct research within the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program. The team is located on WHOI's Quissett Campus. The team has a staff of about 100, including 24 research scientists and 75 scientific and administrative support staff. USGS earth scientists explore and study many aspects of the underwater areas between shorelines and the deep ocean, off the U.S. East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and in parts of the Caribbean and Great Lakes.

News

Palos Verdes Shelf Experiment: What Will Happen to the Contaminated Mud? - Let's say there's a pile of mud that's been accumulating on a continental shelf since the Marx Brothers made A Day at the Races in 1937. Then let's turn off the main source of sediment for that deposit. Will it erode? (MORE )

Gravity Coring Offshore Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to Investigate the Timing of Submarine Landslides and Large Earthquakes - Recent analysis of the destructive 1918 tsunami that devastated western Puerto Rico has shown that the tsunami was likely caused by a large earthquake-induced submarine landslide in the Mona Passage west of Puerto Rico. (MORE )

USGS Visit to Alaska to Discuss Law of the Sea Studies - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Debbie Hutchinson traveled to the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, and gave a public talk on an upcoming field program that will use two icebreakers to survey parts of the Arctic Ocean in support of defining the extended continental shelves of the United States and Canada.(MORE )

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GIS information Our interactive map server with displays on various information layers from a number of USGS research programs.	Marine Realms Information Bank MRIB is a distributed geolibrary that provides access to information about oceanic and coastal environments.
Photographs A collection of photographs documenting sea floor characteristics and operations in the field.	Soundwaves A monthly newsletter produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.